Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ezekiel 32:18
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 594, footnote 8 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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Origen Against Celsus. (HTML)
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... afflicting the whole body of Job with the so-called disease of elephantiasis. I pass by what might be quoted from the Gospels regarding the devil who tempted the Saviour, that I may not appear to quote in reply to Celsus from more recent writings on this question. In the last (chapter) also of Job, in which the Lord utters to Job amid tempest and clouds what is recorded in the book which bears his name, there are not a few things referring to the serpent. I have not yet mentioned the passages in Ezekiel,[Ezekiel 32:1-28] where he speaks, as it were, of Pharaoh, or Nebuchadnezzar, or the prince of Tyre; or those in Isaiah, where lament is made for the king of Babylon, from which not a little might be learned concerning evil, as to the nature of its origin and ...